auntie ames
@amesie.bsky.social
do no harm, take no shit. chaotic good, mostly. queer. unapologetically pro-abortion. invested in the village *and* not your fucking mom. she/her
Pinned
a woman wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign .
Alt: amy poehler wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign .
media.tenor.com
misspelling a name in haste and leaving it, the social media proxy for pissin’ on a grave
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Should they have cared about all this before now? Yes.
Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star.
Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.
Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star.
Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.
January 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Should they have cared about all this before now? Yes.
Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star.
Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.
Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star.
Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.
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YES YES YES YES YES welcome ‘em back welcome ‘em in we’ve all been dummies about something
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
YES YES YES YES YES welcome ‘em back welcome ‘em in we’ve all been dummies about something
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Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
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American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
This story was produced in partnership with High Country News. I. The state troopers came first for Tupe Smith. They arrived in a pair on November 30, 2023, traveling a stretch... Read More
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
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The elephant in the room, of course, is that if Democrats like Frey really do want ICE out of Minneapolis, they’re going to have to support policies that take away their money and power, that defund them, you might say.
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The elephant in the room, of course, is that if Democrats like Frey really do want ICE out of Minneapolis, they’re going to have to support policies that take away their money and power, that defund them, you might say.
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
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Let's be serious for a moment: the problem with "defund the police" wasn't that it was a shit slogan. It was because the slogan was deployed in a context of omnipresent white supremacy, and sought to target one of its most effective tools: the police. And it did so through targeting its resources.
Sherrilyn, It was. A slogan has one job and it fucked itself, setting back real reform and driving a wedge between those committed to such and so many potential allies. Bury it. Move on to any number of alts: Police the Police, End The Drug War, Mass Incarceration is a Crime, Demilitarize Policing.
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Let's be serious for a moment: the problem with "defund the police" wasn't that it was a shit slogan. It was because the slogan was deployed in a context of omnipresent white supremacy, and sought to target one of its most effective tools: the police. And it did so through targeting its resources.
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Straight, no chaser. Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Straight, no chaser. Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
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this country truly is allergic to helping people
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
this country truly is allergic to helping people
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I wish they would say something like this: "Not only is Trump sending U.S. soldiers overseas on illegal operations, he's even more dangerous here at home: making life unaffordable, stealing your healthcare to prop up billionaires, and executing Americans in cold blood."
January 7, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I wish they would say something like this: "Not only is Trump sending U.S. soldiers overseas on illegal operations, he's even more dangerous here at home: making life unaffordable, stealing your healthcare to prop up billionaires, and executing Americans in cold blood."
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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We are not equal, because a male can engineer a woman’s or girl’s expulsion from a community almost effortlessly.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We are not equal, because a male can engineer a woman’s or girl’s expulsion from a community almost effortlessly.
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Companies, schools, programs, they will all, every time, choose the shittiest and most useless man over the most brilliant and useful woman, because it doesn’t matter that she hasn’t done anything wrong: the moment he sexualizes her, she is A Problem.
December 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Companies, schools, programs, they will all, every time, choose the shittiest and most useless man over the most brilliant and useful woman, because it doesn’t matter that she hasn’t done anything wrong: the moment he sexualizes her, she is A Problem.
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
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This is your fucking hero, Democrats? This is the man that you think is the savior of the party? This is the guy you’re willing to throw the lives of all trans people away for? This is the guy you’re going to bat for? This is your “perfect is the enemy of good” lecture? This REAGAN lover????
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is your fucking hero, Democrats? This is the man that you think is the savior of the party? This is the guy you’re willing to throw the lives of all trans people away for? This is the guy you’re going to bat for? This is your “perfect is the enemy of good” lecture? This REAGAN lover????
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you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
I haven’t been a fan of david sedaris in a decade and, woof, what a reminder of why
the man’s latest screed? people showing empathy for not-him is somehow reductive party politics, rather than the more obvious reality that he’s pity-party-parading around like an pedantically obtuse prick
the man’s latest screed? people showing empathy for not-him is somehow reductive party politics, rather than the more obvious reality that he’s pity-party-parading around like an pedantically obtuse prick
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I haven’t been a fan of david sedaris in a decade and, woof, what a reminder of why
the man’s latest screed? people showing empathy for not-him is somehow reductive party politics, rather than the more obvious reality that he’s pity-party-parading around like an pedantically obtuse prick
the man’s latest screed? people showing empathy for not-him is somehow reductive party politics, rather than the more obvious reality that he’s pity-party-parading around like an pedantically obtuse prick
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
[watching hopeful/funny/lovely/dumb shit on ig, forced ad countdown starts]
lol NOPE
[closes app, bricks phone]
lol NOPE
[closes app, bricks phone]
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
[watching hopeful/funny/lovely/dumb shit on ig, forced ad countdown starts]
lol NOPE
[closes app, bricks phone]
lol NOPE
[closes app, bricks phone]
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FINALLY GOT IT!
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
FINALLY GOT IT!
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶
I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.
Over 20,000 the past month alone.
Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"
In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:
Fish success story.
🪶